acctjustforyou

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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
> I think these are legitimate questions They are, and the fact that you even have to defend asking them is a non-trivial indicator of how bat-shit crazy the thinking has gotten on this topic.
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
> BTW Temple University is not an HBCU Which means that instead of one HBCU being ranked on the US News list of best colleges for Computer Science [1] (albeit at the very bottom), there are zero.[2] [1] - http://grad-schools.
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
Sounds like you've found a great indicator of skill then - "does not have a CS degree."
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
"There exists a young man with no legs who has a stellar collegiate wrestling record. There also exists an athlete in the most prestigious wrestling program in the country who always loses because he never makes weight, and when he doe
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
> With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more diverse. The top of a company's funnel could also be m
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
> edit: and about "open source" contributions; ethnic minorities and women are far more likely to have worked in large corporations rather than in open source or startups, because those companies are held to a higher standard i
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
The fact that a CS degree is neither necessary nor sufficient for being a good programmer does not mean it is a worthless data point.
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
If I get an applicant who cannot or will not understand what a thought experiment is, they're not getting an interview - I don't care what college they went to. And yes, I registered this account because your comment was so breath
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by acctjustforyou 10y ago
> Summary: not discriminating against applicants before speaking to them based on where they're from, where they've worked, what school they went to, how long they've been in the profession, and who they know that you know